Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Most Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus...

Take a colorful walk through human ingenuity. Humans have been unpacking the earth to use pigments since cavemen times. Starting out from surface ...

The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern soci...

Look out! There''s a Snaffle about, and she''ll eat your screen as a snack! When the Snaffle arrives in the city, she just wants to ...

The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writersDougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorthwho felt that literature w...

What makes your life worth living? What purpose do you serve? How do you thrive in a fast-changing world? As new emerging technologies like artifi...

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat,...

Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christo...

In the attention economy, online influencers are an emerging class of power brokers. How can you harness their potential? Break the Internet takes ...

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf po...

An argument that-despite dramatic advances in the field-artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. ...

What makes us human? We are all connected but do we feel lonely? Does democracy still work? Are cities for everyone? Should the planet be a...

The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the el...

The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the el...

The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world''s leading authorities on artif...

The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequ...

In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, w...

A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...